Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Pelecaniformes > Ardeidae > Egretta > Egretta vinaceigulaEgretta vinaceigula (Slaty Egret)The slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula) is a small, dark egret. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. It is classified as Vulnerable, the biggest threat being habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.83437 EDGE Score: 3.67218 |
Adult Weight [1] | 288 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | Diet - Fish [2] | 90 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | Forages - Water Surface [2] | 100 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 22 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands |
Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Zambezian coastal flooded savanna |
Mozambique |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Zambezian flooded grasslands |
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Bangweulu swamps |
Zambia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Barotse flood-plain |
Zambia |
A1, A4i |
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Eastern Caprivi wetlands |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Kafue flats |
Zambia |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Kafue National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii |
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Linyanti swamp/Chobe river |
Botswana |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Liuwa Plain National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Mahango Game Reserve and Kavango river |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Okavango Delta |
Botswana |
A1, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Simungoma |
Zambia |
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Tsumkwe pan system |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Dowsett, R.J. 1981. Breeding and other observations on the Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 101: 323–327 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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